Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 90: The Nanyue Kingdom is destroyed! Only the Imperial Zhou Dynasty is here!

[February of the fifteenth year of Shengwu.]

[The sound of iron sheet hitting the sword at the waist. Lan Shu is wearing a shawl and helmet, with a longbow on his back, and a cold look on his face.]

[The 130,000 Nanfu troops, with the Jingzhou troops as their base, are heading to the frontline battlefield of Nanyue, and Lan Shu has never been a merciful person.]

[He was born in a humble family and served as a military commander in Jingzhou. With his bravery and military exploits, he was appreciated by Chu Shizhao and qualified for further advancement. Not long after, in the Battle of Poyang, he followed Chu Shizhao's orders and attacked the granary of Wang Shouyi's army, causing the enemy's morale to collapse. Then he responded to the situation and rode his horse to respond to Chu Shizhao's main force, acting as a feint attack. The two sides surrounded and destroyed Wang Shouyi's entire army in one fell swoop.]

[The thing he likes to do most in his life is to bet on his own strength. ]

[Because I have no background, no status, and no backing, I have to use my own abilities and toughness to gain opportunities.]

[“Yang Fang is a piece of trash.” Lan Shu stretched out his hand and twisted his neck. “He actually allowed the Nanyue people to enter Qinzhou and made His Majesty so angry. How could he be listed with me as one of the five generals of Dingbang?”]

[Han Gu said with a gloomy face: "Zihe, don't talk nonsense."]

[Lan Shu looked down on him. To him, it didn't matter who he offended. As long as he didn't offend His Majesty, it didn't matter how arrogant he was.]

[“Reporting to the Marshal, there is a rider ahead, who seems to be from Jiaozhi County, and he said he can offer us a map.” A scout on a warhorse dismounted and knelt to report. ]

[“Please ask him to come over.” Lan Shu’s arrogance was immediately restrained. Although he was reckless in marching and fighting, it did not mean that he did not have long-term considerations.]

[South Vietnam has a complex terrain. If someone is willing to offer a map or is familiar with the terrain, they will have the initiative in the war.]

【Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle. 】

[Not long after, a young man came over on a warhorse. He was tall and held a spear in his hand. When he saw Lan Shu, he did not kneel down, but said on his horse: "I am Lei Ming, the eldest son of Lei Bin, the governor of Jiaozhi County."]

[“Ding Lan rebelled in Nanyue, using his subordinate to kill his lord, and overthrew his superior. He led the Nanyue army all the way to attack us, causing my father to die in Jiaozhi. Why did the imperial army arrive so slowly?”]

[Lan Shu raised his eyes slightly and said: "Because the general guarding this place is incompetent."]

[Lei Ming originally wanted to criticize the general who was guarding the border, but he never expected that the general newly sent by the court would be so outspoken and blunt, which made Lei Ming speechless.]

[Lei Ming was the offspring of the local Yi people and the Zhou people. He spoke unclearly and it was difficult to convey his meaning accurately. He just asked: "What about you? Can you avenge my father?"]

[“Give me the blueprints of South Vietnam, and I will conquer it within ten days.” Lan Shu said, riding a warhorse and pulling the reins hard.]

[“I don’t have the blueprints of South Vietnam, but I know the way. I’ll take you there.” Lei Ming said.]

【Lan Shu stretched out his hand, making a gesture of "please".】

[“Aren’t you afraid there’s a trick?” Han Gu really couldn’t stand Lan Shu’s habit of marching without a plan, without preparation, and without any military tactics.]

[Lan Shu glanced at Han Gu and said, "Your Majesty is so angry, I must fight quickly and decisively, and report the victory to the court."]

[“You, Han Gu, are good at commanding the army, but you are too concerned about the pros and cons and the situation. You can’t win without a long battle, but I prefer a quick victory.”]

[“Take your troops and help me scout the battlefield. If there is any accident, come back to help.”]

[“Your march like this will only cause your men to suffer heavy losses—” Han Gu said with gritted teeth.]

[“I don’t want to know how many casualties my men have suffered. I just want the result. I just want the news that South Vietnam has been destroyed. Even if we have to fight hard, we have to dig deep into the South Vietnam.”]

[Lan Shu rode his horse and said: "Here, I am the commander, you must obey my orders."]

[“I’m telling you, I’m going to win this battle even if I have to.”]

[“If I can’t win, I’ll die in South Vietnam and never go back!”]

[In March of the 15th year of Shengwu, Lan Shu notified Champa, Chenla and other countries near Nanyue, asking them to send troops together. Under pressure from Lan Shu, these people could only send some symbolic troops to attack Nanyue. Lan Shu did this in order to put pressure on other fronts in Nanyue.]

[In his opinion, since he already knew that Ding Lan was a traitor who was trying to overthrow his superiors, the internal situation must be unstable. Fighting on multiple fronts would be extremely difficult to control with Ding Lan's ability alone. As long as the battle situation was chaotic and there were enough fronts, if one of them failed, the other side would be unable to resist.]

[Lan Shu's troops quickly captured Cao Bang in South Vietnam and defeated the Vietnamese army at Phu Liang River.]

[The Vietnamese army led by Fuliangjiang was Ding Lan's younger brother Ding Yu. After capturing him alive, Lan Shu did not want to use Ding Yu to gain any benefits. He ordered his men to torture him to death in front of the entire army, cut off his head and put it in a box as a military merit, and threw the rest of the body into the river.]

【Ding Lan saw that the situation was not good, and immediately sent an envoy to request a truce, offering to return the captives.】

[Because they braved the heat to enter the malaria-infested land, Lan Shu's troops were already suffering from the plague, but Lan Shu was determined to continue the war. He looked at the army, which only had three days' worth of rations left, and decided to take a risk.]

【Lan Shu encouraged his soldiers, "We all eat your majesty's food. Now the enemy who bullies the people of the Great Zhou is in front of us. Let's fight with this and thank our lord for his grace!!!"】

[“Cross the river! Attack the city!!!”]

【“Anyone who talks about retreating will be killed!!!”】【Lan Shu led tens of thousands of troops across the river to attack. Ding Lan didn’t know that the enemy’s attack was so fierce. He wanted to make peace, so he didn’t deploy an ambush across the river. The Zhou army that landed was like crazy, not afraid of life and death. The infantry and cavalry that got off the boats and landed attacked together, charging towards their location like a deadly army, and landed forcefully, surging like a tide.】

[On the night of March 9, the fifteenth year of Shengwu, Lan Shu broke through Henei County where Ding Lan was located. Afterwards, Lan Shu ordered his soldiers to massacre the city directly, while he drank on the top of the city and watched the chaos in the city.]

[“Blood for blood, tooth for tooth.”]

[On March 10, the 15th year of Shengwu, Ding Lan was captured alive. Han Gu's troops also marched at a very fast speed after Lan Shu first arrived in Henei County to protect Lan Shu's army and prevent the two sides from losing contact and fighting each other.]

【And Lan Shu ordered his men to bring Ding Lan to the tent.】

【Seeing that Ding Lan, the defeated general, was dissatisfied with Lan Shu's attack, Lan Shu quickly revealed a ferocious smile and kicked Ding Lan to the ground.】

【Lan Shu's boots stepped on Ding Lan's head.】

[Then he kept moving left and right, gradually increasing his strength, causing Ding Lan to scream.]

【Han Gu was calm and composed, watching without doing anything, and then said, "General Lan, Minister Wen asked me to bring you a message."】

[Lan Shu sneered, "I gave the order to massacre the city. What does it have to do with Your Majesty?"]

[“He massacred me in Qinzhou, and I massacred him in Hanoi. What’s wrong with that?”]

【Han Gu nodded, "Okay, in that case, you can do whatever you want with Zihe throughout Nanyue."】

[Soon after, Han Gu walked out of the tent.]

【Lan Shu reached out, grabbed Ding Lan's hair, and smashed the documents against the desk again.】

[On March 12, the 15th year of Shengwu, the Nanyue Kingdom was destroyed. The one who destroyed the kingdom was Lan Shu. Lan Shu had always been too brave and fierce, and was bloodthirsty by nature. Since he took control of Hanoi, the city has been covered in blood.]

[“Since you have massacred Qinzhou, you must pay with your life!”]

[The Book of the Later Zhou, Biography of Lan Shu, records the massacre that broke out in Hanoi, which almost wiped out the entire population of Nanyue. The history book also calls it "the destruction of Nanyue."]

[Congratulations on unlocking a new skin illustration - Lan Shu, the brave general who destroys the country. ]

Chu Shizhao looked at Lan Shu's battle results and finally felt relieved.

Lan Shu is a man with strong military capabilities, but he is a complete butcher. He does things in an unkind way and has bad relationships with his colleagues, but he is very good at fighting.

This is the only famous general in Chu Shizhao's hands whose military strength has exceeded 95 points so far. It is currently 96 points, making him the most powerful general among the five generals of Dingbang.

Apart from personality, the military capabilities are almost fully equipped.

Apart from his political abilities, he is also a famous general of all generations.

Now Chu Shizhao wanted to see if there was anyone else who was so blind as to want to cause trouble for him.

It is true that one strike is enough to prevent a hundred blows from coming.

No matter what, we cannot develop just for the sake of development. If we fail to achieve the effect of attracting all nations to pay tribute, such unexpected events will easily occur on the border.

Chu Shizhao's eyes suddenly turned to the grassland.

The grassland is peaceful now. After he dies, will the nomadic people on the grassland come to beat his son?

With the previous experience of South Vietnam, Chu Shizhao felt that a certain bloodline had awakened in himself.

He couldn't understand how an emperor who would not fight back after being beaten, and even had to cede land and pay compensation after winning, could be considered as an emperor.

Chu Shizhao was only fooled once, and he just wanted to fight these beasts to the death.

Before I die, I will beat you all up no matter what.

The Later Zhou Dynasty, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty he established, did not allow for soft-war or surrenderist factions. It would be a shame if there were such descendants.

To avoid this happening.

Chu Shizhao is their ancestor.

Determined to be a militant.

There is only Huang Zhou here!
(End of this chapter)